DESCRIPTION

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. Operations is at the heart of what we do, delivering hundreds of thousands of packages each day and fulfilling customer orders from all over the world. Amazon is seeking a Finance Manager to help own critical functions within the rapidly growing Middle Mile org.

Experience on this team opens up varying career opportunities across Amazon such as transitions to other business lines, project management roles, and/or management opportunities locally, regionally, and globally.

This role will be part of the Middle Mile FP&A team supporting Surface Transportation. In addition to owning month end close reporting, the Finance Manager will partner with Middle Mile and Operations Standardization and Automation (S&A) teams as we build standardized reporting solutions and automation to improve middle mile planning speed, quality and cost structure.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following abilities: they have strong financial modeling skills, technical aptitude to analyze large data sets, clearly communicate financial data analysis findings with stakeholders, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment. They collaborate with leaders and various business units across Amazon. A typical day in this role provides an opportunity to innovate by building creative solutions with large-scale data mining tools, identifying the high-priority work and projects that maximize results for key stakeholders, and solving complex problems that effect company-wide strategic decisions. Candidates should demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills as direct interaction with leadership is common.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead Surface Transportation monthly reporting. This includes delivering monthly financial close by generating cost bridges, partnering with key stakeholders to generate narratives for senior leadership, and distilling key insights on the impact of KPIs on our performance

- Play a key role in our journey for process simplification, standardization, and automation.

- Provide financial support to business partners on key initiatives that improve the quality of deliveries, speed of delivery and/or reduce costs

- Identify risks, evaluates impact, proposes changes, and implements improvements to remediate gaps.

- Proactively partner with managers to prioritize and focus on high-impact activities and to de-prioritize those which are unlikely to drive material improvement.

- Contributes to work life harmony by being a positive, collaborative, and effective influencer to new team members as an indicator of operations excellence.